TTT Food Group's latest project is to set up a 'Food Hub' based on the model piloted by Transition Stroud.

A Food Hub is managed and operated by producer and consumer members.  It's aim is to provide a practical, friendly supply chain for small scale and family food enterprises, developing a model that enables producers and consumers to work for mutual benefit. 

Benefits for Growers & Producers
The Food Hub concept allows producers, especially smaller ones, to concentrate on producing rather than sales and marketing, which means greater efficiency. Producers can get on with what they do best - whether it's making cheese, growing garlic or producing grass fed beef. It offers:
- Minimal marketing & single delivery point
- Up front orders & payments, at higher than wholesale prices
- Offer as much or as little produce (a heavily fruiting apple tree in your garden!) as you like, when you like

Benefits for Consumers
The connection between food, land, producer and consumer can add a dimension to your experience of food wholly lacking from the drudgery of the weekly supermarket shop.
- Know where your food comes from & gain access to local farms
- Fresh food at lower than retail prices
- Buy exactly what you need in the quantities you need
- Learn what grows locally, and when

Buying food directly from farmers puts your money to work at the grass roots of our local economy, where it does the most economic good for the most people.  If you want to give your family the best food grown around Totnes, increase environmental sustainability, and boost rural economic development, join the Totnes Food Hub, a cooperative business organisation owned by farmers and their customers .

The Totnes Food Hub is looking for members to grow & buy the food.  We welcome all ideas and if you are a grower, producer or consumer we would like to hear from you. To get involved, contact John (below), come to our next meeting, or sign up to our mailing list on Google Groups.

John Crisp
T 01803 812841
M 07766302257
johnlcrisp@googlemail.com

 Join our discussion about how to set up our structure

See minutes of our meetings:

10th August '09, 24th August '09, 11th September '09,

1st October '09, 15th October '09, 2nd November '09,

3rd December '09,  9th December '09, January's decisions, 24th Feb '10

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